power mac g4 advice....

macrumors 6502

Hooray! I'm getting a Power Mac G4 "Sawtooth" for a pretty good price. It comes with 350MHz G4, 256MB RAM (1 DIMM), and a 40GB HDD. I have to replace the video card (it's dead), and I'm upgrading the RAM, and I'd like to upgrade the processor at some point in the future (a bit low on cash, still buying a MBP).

I'd like to hear recommendations on what I should get for the upgrades. Right now I've got planned:

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I have same computer ('cept it started out as 400mhz and it was new). I have a 1ghz mprocessor upgrade, 1 gig of ram and 128 mb of video and it chugs along just fine. I am about to get a 2ghz upgrade. I think they run about 375$. SO yea your setup should be fine but get more ram and upgrade your CPU. -->Check it out..

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$100 + shipping from mlrproducts in the marketplace. Actually I've just claimed it, he hasn't contacted me about shipping or transferring funds yet, unfortunately he's out of town. On the day I buy something. But he lost his job and has to sell a lot of stuff, so I get a pretty good computer and I'm helping out a seemingly nice guy.

I was actually trying to get my mom to buy it, since I'm getting a MBP and the family has a 2001 Gateway (SUX0rRz, it takes about 30 seconds or more to open iTunes). She said, "I'm not buying a new computer for a long time! This one works fine!" So I'm going to use it as a desktop machine and hopefully get my family to use it over the PC, and make true converts out of them.

And seriously, the 933MHz is "more than enough"? Wow! I've got to used to Mac. I'd heard that they last longer, but I'd never imagine this!

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I'm considering getting a flat panel LCD monitor to go with the PMG4, so I've looked into getting a video card with DVI out. Will any AGP 2x or PCI card work in it? Or are there certain ones that you have to use? Most of the better DVI Radeon cards are 9000 or 9250, I think.

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